END OF OVER:20 | 14 Runs | AUS-W: 189/1 | RR: 9.45
- Ashleigh Gardner22 (9b)
- Beth Mooney81 (58b)
- Jahanara Alam4-0-40-0
- Salma Khatun4-0-39-1
8:30 pm Australia's opening pair of Healy and Mooney create a record opening stand in Women's T20Is and were especially ruthless using their feet to the Bangladesh spinners. Bangladesh's fielding was porous though, dropping numerous easy chances. It will be a monumental upset if Bangladesh can chase this. But you never know! Alex will be back for the start of the chase. At least one of you out there is very optimistic for the chasing side....
Rumplestilskin: "Australia short by 10 runs here.Bangladesh will chase this easily ;-) Come on Tigress !!"
19.6
1lb
Jahanara Alam to Gardner, 1 leg bye, yorker on leg stump, Gardner plays over the top of this, lbw shout denied as the ball caroms to short third man. Bangladesh calls for the DRS review on the last ball for a very ambitious lbw. Impact was fractionally in line with leg stump and it was missing leg so the last leg bye counts.
19.5
4
Jahanara Alam to Gardner, FOUR, knee high full toss on fourth stump, hammered back over the umpire's head and beats long-on easily.
19.4
2
Jahanara Alam to Gardner, 2 runs, length ball on fifth stump, skies a heave in the air but well short of long-on charging in. The ball plops on the ring and they come back for an easy second.
19.3
1
Jahanara Alam to Mooney, 1 run, yorker on the stumps, Mooney shuffled way across and pool-cues this scoop off the toe to short midwicket.
19.2
2
Jahanara Alam to Mooney, 2 runs, wide yorker on sixth stump, squeezed out to deep point, sliding stop by Pinky on the rope to save four.
19.1
4
Jahanara Alam to Mooney, FOUR, knee high full toss wide on sixth stump, slices this high over short third man and races to the rope.
END OF OVER:19 | 16 Runs | AUS-W: 175/1 | RR: 9.21
- Ashleigh Gardner16 (6b)
- Beth Mooney74 (55b)
- Salma Khatun4-0-39-1
- Jahanara Alam3-0-27-0
18.6
6
Salma Khatun to Gardner, SIX, dropped! Sitter at deep midwicket as Gardner skips down and heaves this from off stump straight into, and out of, the hands of Sobhana Mostary on as a sub fielder two yards in from the rope. She was still moving backward as the ball came down in its arc. She reaches up at head height but knocks it over the bar. 4/10 on difficulty as far as boundary chances go, made much harder because she didn't judge it well and didn't get her body into the best position to settle her feet.
18.5
1
Salma Khatun to Mooney, 1 run, floated full and wide on sixth stump, drags a drive across to long-on.
18.4
1
Salma Khatun to Gardner, 1 run, skips down the track, beaten in flight a touch but continues through the shot to this full ball on fifth stump and drives to long-off.
18.3
4
Salma Khatun to Gardner, FOUR, Salma responds by dragging this fuller and much wider outside off, but Gardner is undeterred skipping down and driving this flawlessly in the air over cover, beats the off side sweeper.
18.2
4
Salma Khatun to Gardner, FOUR, lands this too short on fourth stump, Gardner goes deep in her crease to hammer this wide of deep midwicket and beats the sweeper to the rope.
18.1
0
Salma Khatun to Gardner, no run, flighted full on off, driven back to the bowler.
END OF OVER:18 | 8 Runs | AUS-W: 159/1 | RR: 8.83
- Ashleigh Gardner1 (1b)
- Beth Mooney73 (54b)
- Jahanara Alam3-0-27-0
- Salma Khatun3-0-23-1
17.6
1
Jahanara Alam to Gardner, 1 run, full on fourth stump, driven to long-off.
17.5
1
Jahanara Alam to Mooney, 1 run, yorker length ball on fifth stump, jammed out to point.
17.4
4
Jahanara Alam to Mooney, FOUR, too straight and too short on the legs, shuffles across and flicks this high over short fine leg. Super shot.
17.3
0
Jahanara Alam to Mooney, no run, fullish length ball on fourth stump, beaten flicking across trying to scoop.
17.2
2
Jahanara Alam to Mooney, 2 runs, low full toss on the legs, flicked to deep midwicket and they run a sharp two taking one for the throw.
17.1
0
Jahanara Alam to Mooney, no run, goes well across her stumps to scoop a full ball slanted across fifth stump but fails to connect on the shot.
Jahanara comes back for pace finally at the death.
END OF OVER:17 | 9 Runs 1 Wkt | AUS-W: 151/1 | RR: 8.88
- Beth Mooney66 (49b)
- Salma Khatun3-0-23-1
- Nahida Akter3-0-26-0
16.6
W
Salma Khatun to Healy, OUT, slight pause/hiccup in Khatun's follow through throws off Healy's rhythm and she slices this short and wide ball in the air to point, easy chance at knee height finally taken reaching forward and mercifully taken to end an epic stand.
AJ Healy c Sanjida Islam b Salma Khatun 83 (53b 10x4 3x6) SR: 156.60
16.5
1b
Salma Khatun to Mooney, 1 bye, shuffles way across her stumps and misses a flick to a ball down leg, keeper can't handle cleanly and given as a bye instead of a wide, harshly on Nigar Sultana.
16.4
2
Salma Khatun to Mooney, 2 runs, another dropped chance at backward point! This one much more difficult. Short and wide, sliced flat to point, diving forward to her left the fielder made good ground but it bursts through at shin height and goes to the sweeper for one.
